"What is at stake is that if our church culture is not passionately committed to whole-of-life discipleship-making, we cannot continue to testify our deliverance from the kingdoms of darkness into the kingdom of God's glorious light."

The Rt Revd Dr Eleanor Sanderson, whose ministry as Bishop of Hull will begin in September, spoke to the bishops of the world-wide Anglican Communion during a Plenary session on Discipleship at the Lambeth Conference.

Convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2022, the Lambeth Conference is an international meeting of Anglican bishops. The conference discusses church and world affairs and the global mission of the Anglican Communion for the decade ahead.

The conference theme is ‘God’s Church for God’s World - walking, listening and witnessing together.’ The conference has explored what it means for the Anglican Communion to be responsive to the needs of a 21st Century world.

Meeting around every ten years since 1867, the Lambeth Conference is one of the four Instruments of Unity in the Anglican Communion; the 2022 meeting is the 15th Lambeth Conference.

Bishop Eleanor, currently still serving as Assistant Bishop of Wellington in the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia spoke during a 'Plenary' - a session of the whole conference - on Friday 5th August on the theme of Discipleship.

Introduced and later thanked by the Rt Revd Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Bishop Eleanor can be watched and heard between 39:30 and 1:08:00 via this link:

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